This Toolangi Estate pinot noir was grown at Dixon’s Creek in the Yarra Valley, and was made at Yering Station. There’s a touch of brown to the colour, but you’d never know it to smell and taste.
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Value cabernet from Coonawarra. If you look around - away from the established Coonawarra names - there are some very good examples to be found.
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71% Cabernet Sauvignon; 11% Petit Verdot; 11% Malbec; 7% Merlot and the precision with which they describe the composition of this wine on the Moss Wood website is something to behold. Two tastings of this wine now (already!) with the second being more favourable than the first.
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Oh well now, wines like these make my job a little tricky. I’m not sure whether this is an aberrant bottle or whether that’s just how the wine is..and some people don’t notice (website indicates favourable reviews). It’s screwcapped and recently sent so will review as is.
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This is Merlot 62% and Cabernet Franc 38%, which are two of my favourite grapes when rolled into one wine, from the Gimblett Gravels bits of Hawke’s Bay. A great follow up to the more refined 2006 vintage.
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A new winery for me with vineyards in the cool bits of Denmark, where hopefully nothing is rotten due to regular spraying and low humidity during vintage
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Well it’s a life full of surprises as I always say and one must always keep an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
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This VP from Spinifex is made with touriga nacional, tinta negra mole, tinta cao and tinta roiz grapes. Only 800 bottles were made - 500ml bottles that is. They’re beautiful bottles too, slender shouldered and classic. I love 500ml bottles - for table wines and for fortifieds.
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Did you know, rather astoundingly, that I’ve never been to the Coonawarra? I’ve been to lots of far flung corners too, but never Coonawarra.
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I thought at first that this was the standard St Hallett shiraz. I thought it was pretty good value. At $21. Then I saw that it was the Gamekeeper’s Shiraz. At $15-ish. I started sitting up straighter …
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Not sure why this is called a blend when in fact it’s 100 percent chardonnay. Possibly an anti-statement on the saleability of Barossan chardonnay.
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Curiously, I reckon that the Pinot from Principia tastes more like Yarra Valley than Mornington. Perhaps it’s a sub-regional Mornington thing as I’m not entirely up to scratch with that area.
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